Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Long-awaited bulk shipments of medical gloves can arrive full of holes, unusable. This is essential to developing services she will use and, longer term, putting into place solutions that will have a lasting impact. Pursue scientific innovation. In some countries, what passes for an ambulance is a donkey cart.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It would create a “bully in the schoolyard” who could “cement the kind of monolithic monopolies that have plagued cable subscribers all along” and lead to a long-feared “media dystopia.”. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture. There is no cable industry.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. Taking The Long View.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

While the idea of IBM selling non-IBM products was almost unheard of in the recent past, it is now becoming commonplace-to the benefit of customers and, in the long run, IBM itself. Innovation' Who would have imagined, even in 1990, that IBM would be largely in the service business!

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For a long time, I have been troubled to see how often organizations fail to invest wisely in their futures while instead placing dominant emphasis on the present. But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

The negotiation of a long-term media rights contract with Comcast SportsNet provides the franchise with long-term financial stability and gives us the luxury of running our business strategically for the long-term, without having to make shortsighted decisions.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. It is easy to see how a trust deficit will ultimately slow long-term growth prospects, regardless of favorable macro indicators. There is another reason that trust is so critical to the innovation process.

Brand 16

Brand Hotels Reputation Franchising 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

However, even as a nonprofit, we believed in running the organization as a business; we would sell the product at a margin, and any "profits" would be reinvested back into the company to fulfil our longer term goal: to create a line of affordable medical devices that could save the lives of millions of at-risk babies.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. In effect, they are learning to balance long-term objectives against short-term fee maximization.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

But today, franchises like these are no longer enough to sustain both the profit and growth expectations of these legacy electronics businesses. But instead of finding new ways to compete with each other, console makers need to re-examine who they compete with to survive in the long term.

Industry 8

Industry Franchising Christensen System 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction?

Blog 329

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 329

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. Take for example 7-Eleven, a company that implemented enterprise social networking with no idea as to it eventual use.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A message sent out by the company suddenly made Tesla’s long-term strategy clear to me. These four challenges have seemed insurmountable — at least in the near term — and consigned electric cars to the status of a boutique industry selling to local commuters. Because for Elon Musk and Co.,

Strategy 8

Strategy Mass Marketing Franchising Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. If we’re to prevent the enthusiasm for entrepreneurial ecosystems from also fizzling out, we need to get a better grip on what the term really means. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

Blog 392

Blog Politics Short-term Long-term 392